Favourite Yipp’s Secret wins 10th for season

Press, 19 April 1979, Page 22

Favourite Yipp’s Secret wins 10th for season

Yipp’s Secret brought off ler tenth win this season and he eleventh of her career vhen she triumphed narrowy but brilliantly in the Canerbury Jockey Club’s Galaxy Stakes at Riccarton yesterlay. Mr and Mrs Keith Robon’s home-bred five-year-old vas backed down to odds on .fter her close second in the) 120,000 George Adams , Hanlicap on Monday. Yipp’s Secret also won the irst race of the Galaxy series it Wingatui in February for Vlr and Mrs Robson, who bred ter from the Lo Zingaro nare, Eila. Yipp’s Secret is trained at Sore by Rex Cochrane, and vas ridden yesterday by Jim Collett, who completes his erm of apprenticeship next nonth.

Collett had his worries inj yesterday’s race. He decided , to wait and get the run , through in the wake of Candyboy. “He appeared to , be going well enough to clear i Dark Isa, and that would i have allowed me to make my run on one side or other of i

Candyboy,” Collett said. “But Candyboy then started to struggle and there was nothing for me to do but pull out and come four wide.”

i When Collett hooked her out Yipp’s Secret set to with a will in chase of The Fantasy, and her bold late claim gave her victory by half a neck, a margin she was quickly widening. Dark Isa, which had been runner-up to her stablemate,

Yipp’s Secret, in the Otago Racing Club’s first contest in the series, was third this time. She took a little time to settle while the pace was

•| slack, but never gave up tryiling, and outgamed Candyboy ■ for third. i Candyboy appeared to be i cruising when he dashed ; through an inside gap near the home turn, but he was i only batting in the last 200 m. , Lili (fifth) was virtually on

one rein for much of the race, and ran very wide after being responsible for a fairly casual pace in the midle stages.